Abstract
Physics educational research trends are always changing from time to time. This change follows the phenomenon of educational problems that are developing in the field. The current study is a content analysis of research to analyze the trends of physics educational research that was published between the years of 2018 and 2021, visualize physics educational research trends and how Indonesian researchers contribute to physics educational research. This research was reached through the Journal of Research in Science Education (JPPIPA). Data obtained is 48 data and taken with "physics education" as the keyword. It is aimed to guide the researchers who are planning to conduct studies in this particular field by specifying physics education in terms of their methods, subject areas, research titles, data analysis techniques, and sampling types. Based on the results of the research that has been carried out, it can be concluded that the trend of educational research has increased and is in great demand by researchers in 2021. The physics material that is the research trend is wave material. The subject variable that is often studied is research in the cognitive domain. The trend of physics education research tends to be research that uses quantitative research methods with quasi-experimental design and uses data collection instruments in the form of test instruments. The type of sampling used is school students both junior and senior high school. The trend of physics education research also tends to quantitative descriptive research with data analysis techniques using frequencies, percentages, and charts. Number author or authors are becoming a trend in physics education research as much as three and the number of research references are often used as reference only 1-30. The results of this analytical research can be used to guide and provide references for research that will be carried out by further researchers, especially in the field of physics education research
Highlights
Life in the 21st century requires every individual to be able to think critically, creatively, innovatively, able to solve problems, make decisions, communicate, collaborate, work in teams, have a sense of responsibility, and master technology (Wijaya, et al, 2016; Asmawati, et al, 2018; Sulistyaningrum, et al, 2019)
The current study is a content analysis of research to analyze the trends of physics educational research that was published between the years of 2018 and 2021, visualize physics educational research trends and how Indonesian researchers contribute to physics educational research
Based on the results of the research that has been carried out, it can be concluded that the trend of educational research has increased and is in great demand by researchers in 2021
Summary
Life in the 21st century requires every individual to be able to think critically, creatively, innovatively, able to solve problems, make decisions, communicate, collaborate, work in teams, have a sense of responsibility, and master technology (Wijaya, et al, 2016; Asmawati, et al, 2018; Sulistyaningrum, et al, 2019). Students are required to understand the concepts that exist in natural phenomena that occur. Students are involved in the process of building a model that can help them to understand the relationships and differences between physical concepts in phenomena in nature. Physics is one of the subjects in the discipline of Natural Sciences which is still considered difficult by students (Istiyowati, et al, 2017; Sari, et al, 2018; Astalini, et al, 2019) This is supported by the results of a survey on research which shows that on average students are not interested in studying Physics, this is because Physics is a difficult subject to learn. With the existence of various scientific journals about learning but the absence of publications on the analysis of research trends published in Indonesia, especially in the Journal of Research of Science Education (JPPIPA) so there is no definite data on how research trends, especially those related to Physics education at JPPIPA
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